Assignment: Focus on Learning Student: xxxxxxxxxxx – Nationality: Nepalese Background xxxx has been in England for about 4 months. She followed her husband to the UK with her children. Her husband is doing a PhD. at Oxford University and has a couple of years further study before he finishes. xxxxx is currently working at Primark as a shop assistant. She learnt some basic English while at school‚ however much of this was listening‚ reading and writing based and the opportunity to speak
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Assessed Assignment 2: Focus on the learner Muftah‚ married with four children‚ is a pleasant student who is struggling in class. Muftah did not receive any English in secondary school or university. He worked as a Physical Education teacher for two years‚ and then was employed with the Ministry of Youth and Sports for twenty years. In his years of employment‚ Muftah never needed to speak or write in English until about two years ago‚ when he started attending International House. He says that
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Trip Winkel Finance 303 May‚ 27 2005 Dr. Namorato The Enron Scandal Enron was established in 1930 as Northern Natural Gas Company and joined with three other companies to undertake this industry. The four companies eventually began to break apart between 1941 and 1947 as a result of a public stock offering. In 1979‚ Northern Natural Gas was placed under new management when it was bought by InterNorth Inc. In 1985‚ Kenneth Lay‚ CEO of Houston Natural Gas Company devised a transaction
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deals with problem finding and problem definition (Sternberg‚ 2001). Margaret Boden defined creativity as producing something that is novel or different. She also said In order for this new idea to be interesting‚ it needs to be intelligible (Boden 1994). Andrew Court offered another definition stating that the ability if human intelligence helps individuals to use their imagination and produce original ideas and solutions (Court 1998). Although innovation has been higher than ever before‚ many
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WorldCom Scandal Formerly known as WorldCom‚ now known as MCI‚ this U.S.-based telecommunications company was at one time the second-largest long distance phone company in the U.S. Today‚ it is perhaps best known for a massive accounting scandal that led to the company filing for bankruptcy protection in 2002. In 1998‚ the telecommunications industry began to slow down and WorldCom’s stock was declining. CEO Bernard Ebbers came under increasing pressure from banks to cover margin calls on
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System 30 (2002) 419–432 www.elsevier.com/locate/system Doing focus-on-form Rod Ellis*‚ Helen Basturkmen‚ Shawn Loewen Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics‚ University of Auckland‚ Private Bag 92019‚ Auckland‚ New Zealand Received 17 April 2002; received in revised form 14 June 2002; accepted 17 June 2002 Abstract ‘Focus-on-form’ refers to a particular type of form-focused instruction - the treatment of linguistic form in the context of performing a communicative task
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communicator and a good speaker. The ability to be a great speaker is driven from certain traits that a man or woman possess when giving a speech to an audience. When I think of a great speaker I think of somebody who is able to clearly and powerfully get their message across to an audience. I believe that for many people‚ a great speaker is also someone that is able to connect with an audience‚ and allow the audience to relate back to the speaker. However‚ just being a great speaker does not mean the
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Alone From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved‚ I loved alone. Then- in my childhood‚ in the dawn Of a most stormy life- was drawn From every depth of good and ill The mystery which binds me still: From the torrent‚ or the fountain‚ From the red cliff of the mountain‚ From
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Dickinson "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" Being one of the most respected poets in American history‚ Emily Dickinson has inspired writers for nearly two centuries. Because she had a severe sickness that led her to return home from the female seminary that she was studying at‚ you can see in her writing the loneliness that she reflects into her poetry. Though this loneliness is apparent‚ there is also left the possibility for happiness somewhere down the road. "Because I could Not Stop for
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Customer focus Customer satisfaction and loyalty are two important indicators for business. If organizations can meet customer expectations‚ it only can help improve customer satisfaction but not loyalty. However‚ if the quality can exceed customer expectations‚ it can help improve and sustain customer loyalty. There are tremendous practices for performance excellence in terms of customer focus. For example‚ identify different customer groups and understand their needs‚ create an organizational culture
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